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By Jennifer Whitney/Missourian

June 15, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT

Peoples moved out of her home in a drug-infested part of Columbia to a safer area. “I tell everybody, if you’ve got a made-up mind you’re gonna do whatever it takes not to get high — it doesn’t matter where you go, where you live. I am so relieved to have moved. I still go around there as a reminder that I don’t have to be afraid.”